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Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit Structure 2012 are now available in Subscription Center

Hi All,

I am pleased to announce that the Revit Extensions for Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2012 are now available in the Autodesk Subscription Center.

Revit® Extensions extend the capabilities of Autodesk Revit Structure 2012 software in key areas, including structural analysis, modeling, concrete reinforcement, interoperability, and construction documentation. This download contains all previously released Revit Extensions and updates. In addition, this download includes enhancements to several extensions (such as Column/Beam Reinforcements, Content Generator, Rebar Interferences, CIS/2 Import, Steel Connections, Integration with Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis 2012 and AutoCAD® Structural Detailing 2012 software) and two improvements on the framework (Ribbon Integration and Units). Refer to the “Feature Summary” for complete details.


Best Regards,
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Wai Chu
Revit Structure Product Manager,
Waltham, MA

Using the Revit Extensions for Steel Framed Floor Design and Analysis

We have a new whitepaper created by David Odeh of Odeh Engineers out of North Providence Rhode Island.

This white paper explores two new Autodesk® Revit® Structure 2011 Extensions for steel framed floor system design and analysis: the Composite Design Extension and the Vibrations Analysis Extension. These tools enable the engineer to analyze and optimize steel member sizes, evaluate floor vibrations, and directly populate the Revit Structure model with calculated design information. Specific applications of the extensions include: conceptual review of floor framing options, detailed design of new steel framed floors, and analysis of existing floor systems.

The white paper can downloaded here: Revit Extensions for Steel Framed Floor Design and Analysis

Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Revit Structure 2011 is now available!

The Autodesk Structural Engineering product and marketing teams are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Revit Structure 2011.  These exciting additions for Autodesk Revit Structure are available to current Revit Structure Subscription Customers and can be downloaded by logging into the Subscription center by clicking on the following:

Autodesk Subscription Center Login

You can read about these exciting new extensions below or watch by clicking on the following video link:

 

 

Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit Structure

Provides enhancements in key areas, including structural analysis, modeling, concrete reinforcement, interoperability, and construction documentation. This download contains all previously released extensions and updates, as well as several new features including:

 

Floor vibration analysis - helps you assess vibration characteristics in the Revit Structure environment using the requirements of the three methods of AISC Design Guide 11.

Gravity column analysis -  enables you to design steel columns directly in the Revit Structure environment based on the AISC 360-05 design code, helping to increase design efficiency and quality.

SDNF import/export -  enables you to import and export into and out of a Revit Structure project using the SDNF file format for improved interoperability with steel detailing software packages.

A new SS3 link -  provides a bidirectional data link between Revit Structure and SS3, enabling you to use structural data and analyses results from SS3 for better coordination with Japanese design partners using software based on the Revit® platform.

Member section schedule -  gives Revit Structure users an efficient way to automatically generate member section schedules for improved documentation productivity. This feature is available only in Japan.

CSV element generator -  provides a gateway for other structural analysis applications to import structural models, including rebar models, into Revit Structure based on standard rows and columns of the CSV file format. This feature, available only in Japan, offers improved interoperability with structural analysis applications that can output results using the CSV file format.

Autodesk Revit Server Extension

Enables design teams to more easily collaborate on projects with geographically dispersed teams.  The extension’s web-based services assist in keeping team members coordinated as they work on a single project over a distributed wide area network (WAN).  Revit Server helps maintain a seamlessly integrated collection of Revit central models on a single server that users can access from local servers, enabling teams to work more effectively, with higher performance and efficiency. Built-in redundancy helps protect your work in the case of WAN connectivity loss.

Explore the Updated Revit Structure Composite Floor Design Extension

Revit Structure 2011 users with valid subscription can take advantage of an updated Extension that assists with the analysis and design of composite floor systems. This newly updated Extension, which is now available on the Subscription Center, provides analysis and design capabilities for composite and non-composite floor layouts  using the current AISC 360-05  design specification. The integration of this analysis and code checking capability inside Revit Structure enables structural engineers and designers the ability to perform analysis and make code check centric decisions earlier in the design process.

 
Figure 1: Composite Design Extension Main Screen

 
Figure 2: Composite Design Showing Beam Detail

What kind of pile cap can be identified by Revit Extensions for reinforcement?

There is functionality in Revit Extensions that could add reinforcement to pile caps and piles, shown as below,

But you may find sometimes that the piles or pile caps can't be supported for reinforcement. Just like below image, from the geometry, category, structural material type settings, there is no any difference between them. But one can be identified by Revit Extensions, the other one yet cannot. What's the reason?

The reason for this is just because whether or not the nested piles are shared or not.

For the 2 pile cap families, the piles are created as nested family and then nested into the cap host. The only difference between them is:

So there is difference when adding reinforcement using Revit Extensions.

How to use the Revit Structure 2010 Element Positioning Extension (released in Subscription Center on April 2009)

Download the Extension from the Subscription Center under the “Revit Extensions for Autodesk Revit Structure 2010” link.

Revit Structure has various tools to adding tags to your structural elements.  One can add them to the element one-by-one or, by using the “Tag all” tool, can add them automatically within the current view.  However, it would be more practical if it could be able to add tags by defining more than just the current view as well as to be able to set a distance for the placement of the tags and number them by element, type, and/or level.   

Revit Structure 2010 now has an extension that will give more flexibility to adding tags within your project.   This Element Positioning extension allows these basic functions:

·         Create a set of elements and divide them into categories and types

·         Sort elements depending on their location in the project

·         Add a tag describing a user-defined position at the location specified

The extension allows loading necessary information from Revit Structure such as:

·         Object category (e.g. beam)

·         Object family (e.g. steel W-section)

·         Object type (e.g. W12x26)

·         Object geometry

·         Object location (level)

·         Material of which the object is made (after you select the option)

·         Bars reinforcing for RC elements (after you select the option)

The Element Positioning dialog is separated into 4 areas:  Elements, Numbering, Naming, and Tags

1.       Elements  - you can select all the elements in the project or select the elements first before launching the extension

 

2.       Numbering – you can define the tag number sequence from the location of the elements and to specify the auxiliary options

3.       Naming – you can define the syntax for each tag position name to include a tag number to display a number by set of objects with identical type and features or by each element, and can also display the  number of the elements’ lowest level.

 

4.       Tags - you select which tag you want to use for the selected category elements, the tag-to-element distance, the place of tag insertion, tag orientation, and if you need a leader added to the tag.

If you need to add the tags to these same type of elements within other views, by picking the “Selected views” option and then the “Select...” button will display the “Selected Views” check box dialog.

 

 

Check out the Reinforcement Design Extension!

The Reinforcement Design Extension is a part of the Robot Extensions available on the Subscription Center.

Using the Reinforcement Design Extension for Revit Structure user can:

·         verify reinforcement defined in Revit® for a selected RC structure element. Verification is performed in Robot Structural Analysis in compliance with the requirements of an RC code that you select. You can verify only reinforcement that was generated using a dedicated Revit® Extension.

·         design (generate) reinforcement in Robot Structural Analysis for an RC structure element selected in Revit®. Reinforcement is calculated and generated in Robot Structural Analysis in compliance with the requirements of an RC code that you select.

·         import reinforcement from Robot Structural Analysis to Revit®.

You can design and verify reinforcement both for stand-alone elements and for components of a larger structure model. Reinforcement for RC beams, RC columns, and spread footings can be calculated.

 

After you select an RC structure element and launch the Extension, the Reinforcement design dialog displays where you can define: reinforcement design code and steel grade for longitudinal and transversal reinforcement.

 

In Robot Structural Analysis you can set additional reinforcement parameters and add loads and then design reinforcement.

 

When the reinforcement is calculated you can import 3D reinforcement to Revit® using the same extension.

 

 

Using the Conceptual Form Simulation Extension in Autodesk Revit Structure 2010

Hi everyone,

We have just a posted a new video to Youtube (see below) highlighting the new Conceptual Form Simulation Extension available for Autodesk Revit Structure 2010.

Using the Conceptual Form Simulation extension, you can perform a simulation of static analysis of a 3D solid defined in any of the Revit® products:

You can import the following information into the Extension:

·    Geometry

·    Material parameters

·    Supports

·    Loads

·    Load cases

·    Load combinations.

Here are some simple steps to perform a simulation using this Extension:

·      Define a solid in Revit ® and meshes on the solid faces

·      Launch the Conceptual Form Simulation extension (meshes are exported as finite elements)

·      Modify material parameters or thickness values for finite elements (if necessary)

·      Define supports at the mesh nodes

·      Define loads

·      Perform calculations

·      View the calculation results (internal forces, displacements, animations of displacements); you can save the result report in a Microsoft Excel© or Microsoft Word© file

Enjoy,

Wai

New Robot Extensions bring simulation and analysis earlier on in the design process with Autodesk Revit Structure 2010 and Robot Structural Analysis

Hi all,

 

Watch this short video to see how you can bring simulation and analysis earlier on in the design process with Revit Structure 2010 and Robot Structural Analysis with the new Robot Extensions.

 

Scott Hammond of Autodesk, demonstrates in this video how to use the new Robot Extensions for Load Take Down to perform analysis within Revit Structure. Try it out yourselves by downloading the new Robot Extensions on the Subscription Site. Please note that you do need a license to both Revit Structure and Robot Structural Analysis to access the Robot Extensions:

The winter vintage of the Revit Extensions is now available

 

This is time again the release of the Revit Extensions. This time is a little bit different as we release only one Extension that focuses on bridge modeling in Revit Structure. Also all of the Revit Extensions for Revit Architecture, MEP and Structure are now localized in Japanese and Russian in addition to the previous languages

Given the increasing demand of our subscription customers for bridge modeling tools inside Revit Structure, we also made available a bridge toolkit. The Bridge Toolkit for Revit® Structure 2009 software provides information, tools, content, and datasets that will better enable our users (engineers and drafters) to address infrastructure build-out as it relates to bridges.

This toolkit is our first step to address bridge design and the scope of what can be achieved will be presented in a form of webcast on January 27^th. Click to the banner below to register to the webcast

We worked with our existing customers currently designing bridges in Revit Structure and we documented their methodologies in order to scale the best practices to other users. These methodologies as well as tips and tricks are part of the toolkit. Here are some bridge examples:

 

 

In addition to the methodologies, we also developed some bridge specific families for Piers, box girders, piles, abutments and deck and here are some examples:

 

The new bridge modeling Extension is a tool that automates the positioning of this new content. This Extension is composed of 5 steps described below:

Et Voila!!!

These Extensions plus all of the others are available in English, French, Italian, Polish, German and Chinese and you can learn more about them at http://www.extensions4revit.com/

 

If you design bridges, you may also be designing retaining walls and we also released 3 months ago an Extension for automatic reinforcement of retaining walls

    

 

 

Enjoy these new tools and get even more productive!

Nicolas